http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/006584.php
June 10, 2005
Jatras: Playing the Devil's Advocate
A provocative new article by Stella L. Jatras:
The video shown at the International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague and rebroadcast on Serbian television
and on US national TV of the killing of six Muslim men by a group of
mercenary volunteers, known as the Skorpians, has shocked the Serbian
people. The story goes that release of the video is due to the conscience of
one of the perpetrators and delivered to ICTY courtesy of lawyer Natasha
Kandic, founder and director of the "Fund for Humanitarian Law," an
organization funded by George Soros.
Correctly, those who participated were immediately arrested and will
stand trial, and, if found guilty, will be punished by the Serbian
government. In view of this, will the Bosnian government now stand up and
admit the atrocities that were committed by Bosnian Muslim forces against
Serbian civilians so that they can also receive justice?
To play the Devil's advocate, it is necessary to know what
precipitated the events in Srebrenica. Therefore, it is equally important
that the video filmed by the dreaded Muslim commander in Srebrenica, Nasir
Oric, who had mounted commando raids against surrounding Serbian villages
whose remaining population were mainly elderly Serbs, many in their 80s, who
refused to leave their homes also be shown at The Hague and on national TV.
Bill Schiller in the Toronto Star of 16 July 1995, wrote of Oric: "On a cold
and snowy night, I sat in his living room watching a shocking video version
of what might have been called Nasir Oric's Greatest Hits. There were
burning houses, dead bodies, severed heads, and people fleeing. Oric grinned
throughout admiring his handiwork. 'We ambushed them,' he said when a number
of dead Serbs appeared on the screen. The next sequence of dead bodies had
been done in by explosives: 'We launched those guys to the moon,' he
boasted. When a footage of a bullet-marked ghost town appeared without any
visible bodies, Oric hastened to announce: 'We killed 114 Serbs there.'
Later there were celebrations, with singers with wobbly voices chanting his
praises."
Why did Srebrenica happen, and what really did happen there? Balkan
analyst Carl Savage gave his analysis of General Philippe Morillon's
testimony at the ICTY regarding Srebrenica and Naser Oric stating: "The
major conclusion from Morillon's testimony was this: The fall of Srebrenica
in 1995 was the 'direct reaction' to the massacres of Bosnian Serbs by Naser
Oric's forces in 1992-1993. Morillon acknowledged that Oric's troops had
committed war crimes in eastern Bosnia. Morillon personally witnessed the
exhumation of the bodies of Bosnian Serb civilians and soldiers who had been
tortured, mutilated, and executed. He saw with his own eyes the Serbian
villages that had been burned to the ground in the Srebrenica pocket. More
than anyone else, Morillon understood the level of devastation in eastern
Bosnia and the extent and nature of the massacres of Bosnian Serbs."
Who can forget the image of Madeleine Albright frantically waving a
CIA satellite photo of the soccer field showing "proof positive" where 7,000
men and boys alleged to have been killed by Serbs in Srebrenica were said to
be buried? Twenty-two renowned journalists investigated the site and came
away empty handed. Furthermore, in his analysis of 18 September 2003 titled,
"Srebrenica Casualty Numbers Challenged by Experts as Politicized and
Ethnically Divisive," Gregory R. Copley, Director of Strategic Studies,
wrote: "On the eve of the dedication of a monument to Muslims killed at
Srebrenica, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1995, a group which includes a former
UN official, intelligence experts, and journalists, released a statement
challenging the alleged casualty number of 7,000 victims as 'vastly inflated
and unsupported by evidence'."
In another analysis titled, "US Official implicated with Bosnian
Representative Ashdown in Attempt to Force Fabricated Report on Srebrenica,"
Gregory R. Copley, with input from sources in Sarajevo and elsewhere, wrote,
"Very reliable sources within the Office of the High Representative in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and other sources in Sarajevo have told GIS/Defense
& Foreign Affairs Daily that a second US official, Amb. Donald S. Hays, the
Deputy High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been actively
engaged in attempts to force a fabricated report to be published on the
controversial wartime fighting at the city of Srebrenica."
A representative in the Bosnian and Federal Parliaments, Ibran
Mustafic, gave an explosive interview on Aug. 15, 1996, to Slobodna Bosnia
("Free Bosnia," A Sarajevo newspaper). Mustafic was quoted as saying that
the betrayal of Srebrenica "was consciously prepared and that the Bosnian
president and the army command were involved in this business," and that was
to sacrifice Srebrenica in order to gain sympathy of the West. Of his
internment in a Serbian jail, he writes, "I should have died. They [the
Bosnian Muslim authorities] don't appreciate living people. They appreciate
the dead because they cannot talk."
Yasushi Akashi, former UN Representative in Bosnia, admitted in The
Washington Times of 1 November 1995, that, "it is a fact that the Bosnian
government forces have used the 'safe areas' of not only Srebrenica, but
Sarajevo, Tuzla, Bihac, Gorazde for training, recuperation and refurbishing
their troops." In other words, the so-called "safe areas" were used as
military posts to train mujahedin fighters from Afghanistan, Iran, Syria,
Turkey and the entire Islamic world, free to commit their treachery by
attacking Serbian villages and returning back to the safety of their UN
protectors who conveniently looked the other way. Prior to the events at
Srebrenica, these "Holy Warriors of Islam" had attacked 42 surrounding
Serbian villages and over 3,000 Serbian villagers had been slaughtered, but
when Serbs were provoked to retaliate against these Muslim assaults from
these so-called "safe areas," they were condemned by the entire world.
President Bush said after 9/11 that we will do whatever it takes to
defend ourselves against the [Muslim] terrorists, yet we denied the Serbs
the right to defend themselves against the same enemy that we are fighting
today.
If the American people are to be given the full extent of atrocities
committed by both sides, shouldn't the photos be shown of mujahedin from
Saudi Arabia holding the severed heads of Serb soldiers in Bosnia and the
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), holding the severed heads of Serb soldiers in
Kosovo? Or the photo of Serbs being roasted live by Islam's holy warriors?
Shouldn't the photo of the Serbian family that was slain by Bosnian Muslim
forces, the father, whose genitals were stuffed in his mouth and an Islamic
crescent and star etched on his forehead, also be shown on national TV? Or
the photo of Serbian babies with a bullet hole between their eyes who had
been killed by a Bosnian Muslim sniper? Shouldn't the video of atrocities
committed by Nasir Oric as previously described be shown to the world, or is
the "shock" syndrome reserved only for Serbs?
In civil wars, all sides do terrible things and it is tragic that
this should happen to young boys, but are we not seeing reports of Muslim
boys even younger being trained in Pakistan as suicide bombers?
America has not heard the last of atrocities alleged to have been
committed by Serb soldiers. More stories, either fabricated or exaggeration
will continue to emerge from out of the blue, but atrocities committed by
Bosnian Muslims and by the Kosovo Liberation Army will continue to be swept
under the carpet. That's the way the game is being played in the Balkans.
All Christian Serbs wear black hats. All Bosnian and Kosovo Muslims wear
white hats. Checkmate.
Serbian News Network - SNN
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